Research Articles

Interpreting the History of Mexico’s External Debt Crises

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

The International Debt Crisis in Historical Perspective, 1989
For analytical purposes, we can consider four epochs in international lending and rescheduling over the last 160 years.

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The Dynamics of Negotiated Protectionism

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

American Political Science Review, 1987
Recent protectionism by the United States has principally taken the form of negotiated barriers to trade, such as voluntary export restraints.

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The Unraveling of the Multi Fiber Arrangement, 1981: An Examination of International Regime Change

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

International Organization, 1981
Trade in textile and apparel products illustrates many of the conflicts that arise from a shifting international division of labor.

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